The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible, sentence 7
“And she let you go again?” asked the man, in wonder.
Who acts: Scarecrow, you, man · What happens: let, go, ask · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Scarecrow, you, man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 let | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 let | cc |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 let | nsubj |
| 4 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 asked | ccomp |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 let | obj |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 let | xcomp |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 6 go | advmod |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 let | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 let | punct |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 man | det |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 asked | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 wonder | punct |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 wonder | case |
| 15 | wonder | wonder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 man | appos |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in a quote | infinitive | Scarecrow | you | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | again | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the man | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Project Gutenberg book 55 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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